Improvement in book-binding



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LUCIENE G. MATTHEWS, OF NEW ALBANY, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOOK-BINDING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 84,564, dated December 1, 1868.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, LUcmNE G. MATTHEWS, of New Albany, in the county of Floyd and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Memorandum-Books; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specication.

This invention relates to an improvement in memorandum-books, and blank-books generally; and consists in so forming the cover of the book, and so binding the blank paper or pages of the book, that the two may be readily separated, thereby rendering one cover sufficient for an indenite number of books, as will be hereinafter described.

The drawing is a perspective view of a memorandum-book and the cover thereofconnected together according to my invention.

A represents the book or pages bound together by the ordinary stitching, and paper l or cloth back, to one side of which back there is attached a pasteboard or paper tuck, d; or the back itself may form the tuck by extending one side. The forni of this tuck is' indicated in dotted lines on one side or lid of the cover.

B represents the cover of the book. Y Upon the inside of oneof the lids C apocket is formed to receive the tuck d.

The pocket as well as the tuck may be of any desired size, so that when the tuck is slipped into the pocket, as indicated in dotted lines in the drawing, the book A will be properly placed between the lids, and remain inits place, and be protected by the cover, the same as though it were attached in the ordinary process of book-binding.

Instead of a single tuck and pocket, there may be two or more, if desired.

By this arrangement a single cover is adapted to a variety of books-as, for instance, blank or memorandum books relating to different subjects, one of which may be used at a time, or carried in the pocket for any special purpose, and be exchanged for another, as may be required.

This style of book is also well adapted to stub-books, when it is required to save the stubs or margins for future reference.

As a good, durable cover to a blank or memorandum book constitutes the principal expense, it Will be seen that the cost of such books is reduced more than onehalf by my method.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination of the book A with the cover B, when the same are connected together by one or more pockets and tucks, substantially as and for theI purpose described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 11th day of September, 1868.

LUOIENE G. MATTHEWS.

Witnesses J. H. MCMAHAN, P. L. HoEY. 

